For details about the benefits and capabilities of SAP for Public Sector, check out the following information:

Overviews

• "SAP for Public Sector" (PDF, 373 KB) – See how your organization can embrace government initiatives to improve service quality and efficiency. SAP for Public Sector is a modular, scalable solution set with applications and services tailored to the specific standards, processes, and challenges of the public sector.
• "SAP for Public Sector: Solutions for State and Local Government" (PDF, 226 KB) – Discover how the SAP for Public Sector set of solutions can help your organization deliver value to taxpayers and constituents through an enterprisewide architecture that supports new insight, adaptability, flexibility, and productivity.
• "SAP Solutions for Federal Government" (PDF, 190 KB) – Find out how the SAP for Public Sector and the SAP for Defense & Security portfolios of solutions provide government organizations with integrated application and technology solutions – enabling you to innovate and enhance operational efficiency.

Solution Briefs

• "Budget Preparation in the Public Sector" (PDF, 337 KB) – See how the planning, execution, and budget preparation functions of the SAP for Public Sector solution set can efficiently link budgets with actual expenditures, develop complex scenarios, and ensure integration of various departments to streamline budgeting.
• "Capital Planning and Investment Control for the Federal Government" (PDF, 158 KB) – Consider how federal agencies faced with stringent regulations, reduced funding, and challenging IT landscapes accomplish more with fewer resources – with SAP xAPP Resource and Portfolio Management (SAP xRPM) composite application.
• "A Comprehensive Solution for Improving Case Management Efficiency" (PDF, 236 KB) – Learn how SAP solutions can seamlessly link front-office processes with back-office systems, enabling your agency to initiate, track, and manage cases and securely share case information for greater efficiency and better service.
• "Controlling in the Public Sector" (PDF, 220 KB) – Find ways to improve cost management with the planning and controlling capabilities of the SAP for Public Sector solution set. Integration with business accounting and funds-management functions delivers a comprehensive solution to achieve policy and business goals.
• "Enterprise Services Architecture for the Public Sector" (PDF, 171 KB) – Read how public sector organizations worldwide cost-effectively leverage current IT resources to support improved business processes – and new levels of performance and innovation – with enterprise service-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA).
• "Financial Accounting and Funds Management" (PDF, 172 KB) – Learn how the SAP for Public Sector solution set can help incorporate double-entry bookkeeping methods and facilitate the integration of accounting systems without multiple entries – weather your company uses fiscal or business accounting standards.
• "Meeting the Procurement Challenges of the Public Sector" (PDF, 167 KB) – Examine how organizations responsible for maintaining public funds and public trust can control costs, automate processes, improve collaboration, and adhere to regulations and structured guidelines – with the SAP Government Procurement application.
• "Bringing SAP Business Applications to the Microsoft Office Desktop" (PDF, 322 KB) – Read how Duet software helps you increase productivity and improve decision making with intuitive access to SAP ERP in a familiar Microsoft environment.
• "mySAP Customer Relationship Management" (PDF, 166 KB) – Consider how to enhance service quality and efficiency with SAP CRM – an integrated solution for constituent services enabling public organizations to track and manage constituent data more effectively and serve citizens and businesses more responsively.
• "mySAP ERP Human Capital Management for the Public Sector" (PDF, 187 KB) – Read how to enhance workforce management while increasing cost savings, process efficiencies, and employee retention with SAP ERP Human Capital Management. Tailored for the public sector, SAP ERP HCM helps you streamline HR processes.
• "Public Sector Collections and Disbursement" (PDF, 103 KB) – Find out how SAP for Public Sector can help agencies alleviate unrelenting pressures caused by millions of annual transactions; discrete, nonintegrated processing systems; and demands for a diverse customer base requiring personalized customer service.
• "SAP Document Builder" (PDF, 183 KB) – Consider the next step in e-procurement – the SAP Document Builder application helps you generate complex procurement documents quickly and easily, with customer-defined formats, templates, logos, clause content, as well as standard, government-prescribed, and commercial formats.
• "SAP Human Capital Management for U.S. Federal Government Organizations" (PDF, 95 KB) – Investigate how a U.S. federal agency uses SAP ERP HCM to strategically manage human capital resources for mission alignment and performance achievement – enabling efficient recruitment, process transparency, and new insight.
• "SAP Procurement for Public Sector" (PDF, 189 KB) – Discover how the SAP Procurement for Public Sector package can help you control costs while fulfilling complex government purchasing requirements by improving contract compliance and supplier collaboration, accelerating sourcing cycles, and making spend visible.
• "SAP Tax and Revenue Management for Public Sector" (PDF, 159 KB) – See how the SAP Tax and Revenue Management for Public Sector package provides a single view of the taxpayer and supports multiple revenue types – so you can increase collections and maximize compliance, at lower risk and cost than custom-developed solutions.

White Papers

• "Advancing Return on Investment Analysis for Government IT: A Public Value Framework" (PDF, 452 KB) – Discover a framework for conducting public ROI assessment for government IT projects in this white paper, developed by the Center for Technology in Government (CTG) through SAP's sponsorship. Log-in required.
• "Enterprise Services Architecture: An Introduction" (PDF, 260 KB) – Learn how enterprise services architecture (ESA), enabled by the SAP NetWeaver platform, offers a blueprint for flexibility and business efficiency – without increasing costs. Log-in required.

Analyst Reports and Related Information

• "Business Forces Driving Adoption of Service Oriented Architecture" (PDF, 278 KB) – Read this white paper to learn how SAP has embraced service-oriented architecture (SOA) with enterprise services architecture (ESA), and find out how SOA brings benefits through cross-platform integration. IDC (April 2005) Log-in required.
• "Public ROI Case Study: The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's Integrated Enterprise System" (PDF, 264 KB) – Learn how Pennsylvania's implementation of integrated enterprise resource planning software enabled the infrastructure and standards to support core government administrative functions with improved public value. Log-in required.
• "Think SAP Case Management" (PDF, 48 KB) – Learn what to look for in a case management solution, and how SAP Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM), a key solution in the SAP for Public Sector solution portfolio, is helping federal agencies implement an integrated case management strategy. Log-in required.
• "Think SAP Enterprise Services Architecture" (PDF, 87 KB) – Learn how SAP is helping government agencies migrate and adopt an open enterprise services architecture platform with SAP's enterprise services architecture (ESA), a service-oriented architecture. Log-in required.